Personally, I think Argyle fans were treated to such good central midfielders in the late 90's early noughties that our expectations are a bit high. Friio, Nalis, Norris, Wotton, Fletcher even... all fantastic players for us. Since then we've only had the odd player here or there really nail down a central midfield slot. As a central midfield player you really have to take the game by the scruff and dominate it, more so than any other position and it's not easy to do consistently at a high standard. Even Hourihane took a shed load of criticism despite being a fantastic and I remember McHugh being criticised a fair bit early on before he went on to win player of the season. It's comfortably been the weakest area of our team since McHugh left, we still haven't replaced him.
Ness isn't great by any means, but he's solid and sensible. He's not as good as Diagarouga and we should be aiming higher, but I think people expecting great things of him in central midfield are expecting too much.
Ness isn't great by any means, but he's solid and sensible. He's not as good as Diagarouga and we should be aiming higher, but I think people expecting great things of him in central midfield are expecting too much.